Recent content by GopherJake

OT rules are wild.

Blocking shots is dangerous business. It's a miracle more guys don't get seriously injured, honestly. Getting hit in the neck or face/head is extremely rare for how dangerous it looks to me.

There is a fucking zero point zero zero percent chance we will be trading Ek. That would be a fireable offense and completely asinine thought to even think about suggesting it. Tell me you know nothing about hockey without telling me you know nothing about hockey.

Absolutely inexcusable approach there. Then he is fucking slow to the puck in OT and chases the puck carrier around the net, when he's already lost the race and is clearly going to be lost completely. Just awful.

If you wanna boil it down to simplistic reasons, last night's game was lost with a stupid chase behind the net on the PK, a terribly misplayed puck by Wally behind the net when we should've had full control and two very careless clearing attempts by our bottom pair defense.

They just broke down film on the Avs' goal. Nick Foligno chasing McKinnon WHO WAS WITHOUT THE PUCK behind the net is PK 101 no-no.

A little bounce in the last 6 minutes. Bring that out to start the third. Very fortunate to be tied. Wally holding us in.

Just don't be obsessed with decleting him.

Co-Players of the game- Wally & Kaprizov Awesome games- Hughes & Faber Helpful support- Bogo, Filignio x2 Quietly dangerous- Boldy, Yurov, Tarasenko Nobody really played poorly. Great effort, great structure, lots of puck control, lots of zone time, lots of high danger chances.

Need to limit careless turnovers better. And they are calling a tight game; keep it clean.

Only if dirt cheap. Completely expendable. I would take him for 2 years, $6MM. 34. I like him more than I think a lot of people do. Priority, but try to get him on team-friendly. I can't imagine he would want to leave. He's 38. 2 years, $4MM. Maybe play only one year. Cheap only, but has some...

The building was on fire. Very thankful E-Ek is ok. Watching him hobble off the ice and helped into the tunnel from my seat it didn't look good at all. HUGE goal by Tarasenko. Hughes and Faber are so fun to watch. Boldy. Kaprizov. Let's play!

How will he possibly survive it?

Without question. He's definitely a catalyst worth more on ice than he is on paper or even eye test. Guy is super savvy.

Yep, I think so. Move Brink off the PP for sure. Add Faber, Spurgeon or Johansson to the top unit. PK, they need to chase their D a little less (which definitely worked in the regular season, generally) because it is leaving only 3 defenders down low and they are having their way on the sides...